Martorana, Simona2025-06-132025-06-13ORCID:/0000-0002-6523-302X/work/178592143https://hdl.handle.net/1885/733761961While different in their approaches, structure and intended readership, the four books reviewed here are connected by their common aim of responding to traditional views of elegy as a minor, ‘softer’ genre, which stands in binary opposition to the magniloquence of epic9en© The Author(s), 2025202510.1017/S0009840X25000253